Migration of just 1 top level site from 03 to 07

I have completed an upgrade of SPS03 to MOSS07. Aside from a fewhiccups and customizations going a little nuts all is working prettywell. Now I have a top level site on another 03 farm that I wouldlike to migrate into the new MOSS instance as a top level site in oneof the applications which were upgraded. I hope this isn't a Doh!answer. Is there any way to do this? I have read and read and feel alittle confused. Will stsadm do the trick and, if so, can I use the03 stsadm to backup and the 07 stsadm to restore? Or do I have toupgrade the existing application to 07, using gradual, upgrade thatsite and then backup and restore to the new farm? I am REALLY leeryof touching the old instance in any way shape or form because it isour workhorse so if there is a way I can just get that one site outof there and into the new instance without upgrading I would be muchappreciative of some guidance. Sidebar - would a frontpage backupand restore work? Haven't done one in ages but was wondering if thatwas still an option.

Lastly, please dont feel you have to walk me through this. If theanswer is out there and I have somehow overlooked it, please justpoint me to the proper link and I will read and migrate away.(although I only have (WOOOHOOOO! my daughter just brought my MOSSposters upstairs THANKS GUYS for creating these) 24 hours to get thatsite over which is why I'm asking and why I'm hoping it can be donewithout the upgrade. Piss poor planning make for poor portals as weall know...

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We are trying something similar with a complete WSS site from a v2farm to v3 on a different application server, same SQL instance. Theupgrade to the 07 farm completes successfully (according to theupgrade log) however the site will not render and returns this httperror:HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:06:36 GMTServer: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NETMicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.4518

Answer to my question - can't do it. The only way is to do an installof MOSS and perform a gradual upgrade. If you try to use FP2003 orSharePoint Designer it will only create fwp files which are notcompatible with MOSS 07. SMigrate files cannot be imported or restoredwithout crashing due to multiple errors as well. If I'm wrong, correctme, but my tests have brought the above results. Wish I am wrong,don't want to add/install anything to the production environment atall...

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